Carolyn Babcock Torres

"Love is a many-splendored thing." It certainly finds expression in myriad ways, and often laughably--as you will see from these funny stories. As Socrates aptly said, "To see ourselves as others see...

Take a trip to the islands of the Pacific with retired professor J. Humbert Flintlock, his pilot son, his Jewish neighbor lady, and her daughter. It's an entirely innocent project to update the...

Excellence is almost always the aim of any nonprofit. Achieving excellence requires sound planning, marketing, and production. But these areas of performance can be weak and the nonprofit still...

Have you ignored "climate change"? So has Associate Professor William Fleming, a honeybee specialist--until global warming is suggested to him as a cause of crashing bee populations. He decides to...

Jihadist terrorism comes to Florida's East Coast. First, a suicide bomber destroys an offshore oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the government suspects an extremist plot to destroy...

Four mystery novels in one collection! Join detective Joe Phillips and banker Maryanne Larkin as they team up to solve four financially motivated murders in their hometown on the Florida Panhandle...

From the perspective of a long and active life, James Babcock--Jim to all who know him--shares anecdotes from his experiences as a college student, Naval officer, international and domestic banker,...

The variety of essays included in this volume were written as serious histories, some as would-be editorials never submitted, and some for family as memoirs. The criterion for inclusion was the...

Thirty years in the future, journalist Hank Thomas uncovers a conspiracy--a secret war plan to seize the world's last big oil field. With the help of a patriotic Russian girl, the newsman visits the...

The marina of a small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida's Panhandle is awash in more than salt water. Somebody local is bringing in drugs from Mexico. How and by whom is it being done? Police...

Name a genre of funny stuff and there's a sample here of every length and description: Limericks, Puns, Riddles, Aphorisms, Daffynitions, Spoonerisms, Paraprosdokians, humorous Satires, Shaggy dog...

Love...Some give it, some have it, some lose it, all want it. Among the young and old, past and present, foreign and familiar, the emotion appears with many facets--curiosity, longing, hope,...

A poor young black man, winner of a $23 million Florida lottery, is found dead in his bed with a pistol in his hand. Was it suicide, or murder? Detective Lieutenant Joe Phillips romances bank trust...

Want to know all about banking? I didn't think so. But that's where there money is! And all those employees to steal it! However, you'd have to be more clever than the auditor, even if he's new to...

A wealthy widow, heiress to a fortune from Florida oranges, is poisoned--KGB style. The shocking crime sets tongues wagging in a small town on the Gulf Coast shores of the Florida Panhandle. Police...